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Audience design refers to the situation in which speakers fashion their utterances so as to
cater to the needs of their addressees. In this article, a range of audience design effects are …

Languages are powerful solutions to coordination problems: They provide stable, shared
expectations about how the words we say correspond to the beliefs and intentions in our …

Abstract Language use is full of subsentential shifts of context, a phenomenon dramatically
illustrated in conversation where non-sentential utterances displaying seamless shifts …

We ask whether speakers can adapt their productions when feedback from their
interlocutors suggests that previous productions were perceptually confusable. To address …

During dialogue, speakers attempt to adapt messages to their addressee appropriately by
taking into consideration their common ground (ie, all the information mutually known by the …

Linguistic meaning has long been recognized to be highly context-dependent. Quantifiers
like many and some provide a particularly clear example of context-dependence. For …

Pragmatic theories of utterance interpretation share the assumption that listeners reason
about alternative utterances that a speaker could have produced, but didn't. For such …

During communication, we form assumptions about what our communication partners know
and believe. Information that is mutually known between the discourse partners—their …

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